← Al-Ma'idah
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Al-Ma'idah · Ayah 71
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Translation
And they thought
Word Breakdown
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Grammar Rules
Past tense verb
وَحَسِبُوٓا۟ (And they thought) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.
We translate it in past tense — "did", "created", "said", etc.
Conjunction وَ (and)
وَحَسِبُوٓا۟ (And they thought) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".
We add "and" to connect this to what came before.
Sahih International
And they thought there would be no [resulting] punishment, so they became blind and deaf. Then Allāh turned to them in forgiveness; then [again] many of them became blind and deaf. And Allāh is Seeing of what they do.
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